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...Keynote. Yet an air of solid habit had begun to pervade U.N.'s halls. Faces grew familiar. Delegates had learned their way to conference rooms, bars and washrooms. Recently, when an ultra-orthodox Moslem member of the Egyptian delegation spread his prayer rug just off the press bar, nobody paid any attention (except a helpful British journalist who told the Moslem which way was east...
...tiger-skin wallets. Last week police found a tiger's head, placed it in Tora San's cage. But keepers and children (who know their tigers) indignantly insisted that the new head was not Tora San's. This one had been ripped off somebody's rug...
...Congress plainly eager to demonstrate his ineffectualness is therefore laudable. The effect of his veto is likely to be the elimination of the import-fee amendment, and the final shifting of the burden to the Treasury. This act of sweeping the business out of public sight under the rug would obviously be no final answer to the wool wrangle. It would at least, though, spare America the irony of talking world stability up big at Geneva, while at the same time giving it a kick in the stomach long-distance from Washington...
Grizzled old desert sheiks, who remembered the brief days of victory, wept as Sayed Abdul Rahman cut the orange ribbon across the tomb's doorway. Inside, a green, red and blue glass dome cast gaudy light on a glass chandelier and handsome Persian rug (the gift of Neighbor Emperor Haile Selassie). Sayed Abdul Rahman contemplated his father's inlaid sandalwood coffin, which he claimed to have found in the ruins of the old tomb last year...
...Collector. Gulbenkian was reputedly born in Istanbul, the son of an Armenian rug peddler, by one version; according to another, the descendant of a long line of Armenian kings. He became a British subject in 1902 and went to King's College, London, although the story still lingers that he entered England as a rug peddler, smuggling in his three-year-old son in a carpet. In any case, Gulbenkian early made himself a useful agent in the Near East for the late Sir Henri Deterding, Royal Dutch-Shell's head...